Please enable scripts and reload this page. She ended the year on "Yankee Station" in the Gulf of Tonkin. Near the end of the 1911 summer cruise, however, events transpired to upset this pattern. The ship and its sailors were declared honorary residents of the island. choose to send email to the site you visit our site unless you choose to

In December 1965, she began her first Pacific Fleet deployment in the South China Sea, off the coast of South Vietnam.

website. to your request and not stored. BAINBRIDGE began her historic first deployment in February 1963 and rendezvoused with the world's first nuclear carrier, USS ENTERPRISE, in the Mediterranean.
In 1974, while in the shipyard, her 3" .50 caliber guns were removed and replaced with 20MM cannon, she received the AN/SPS-48 radar, and the Naval Tactical Data System was installed. The first nuclear task group began an around the world cruise (OPERATION SEA ORBIT), thereby becoming the first ships of the U.S. Navy to sail around the world since the "Great White Fleet" in 1908. During this cruise, BAINBRIDGE crossed the equator for the first of twenty times.In October 1964, BAINBRIDGE returned to Charleston, South Carolina after steaming more than 30,000 miles. In 1993, BAINBRIDGE was near Haiti for Migrant Interdiction and Maritime Interdiciton Drug Enforcement operations. This meant drilling and patrolling in the Philippines each winter followed by exercises conducted in Chinese waters in the summer. provide such information to us. She won the Navy's "Environmental Protection Award" in 1972. In August she completed her deployment and steamed for home, having sailed over 40,000 miles in 183 days.August saw BAINBRIDGE winning the COMNAVBASE Norfolk Community Service award (Sea) even though she had only been in port a short time, a testament to her dedication to community involvement.

After deactivation, BAINBRIDGE was towed to Norfolk Naval Shipyard for defuelling and preparation for the final resting place of the hull in Bremerton, Washington.After 33 years of valiant service, "A GENERATION OF EXCELLENCE," has come to an end. . Bainbridge was commissioned 12 February 1903. In late 1973 she got underway once again for the western Pacific, this time to "GONZO Station" in the Arabian Sea.During this cruise CAPT B. Bruce Newell relieved CAPT Sheridan as Commanding Officer.

She participated in COMPTUEX in the Puerto Rican Operations area with other members of the GEORGE WASHINGTON Battle Group in preparation for a major deployment to the Med in April. While there, inport Dubai, United Arab Emirates, CAPT Bergen was relieved as Commanding Officer, by CAPT G. M. Ziller Jr.In 1992, BAINBRIDGE stopped in Mombassa, Kenya where the President of Kenya and the U. S. Ambassador to Kenya visited the ship and were given an extensive tour. provide will be solely used to respond While returning to the Gulf of Tonkin from a port visit to Fremantle, Australia, BAINBRIDGE set a speed-distance record, sailing over 6,660 miles in less than two weeks, and averaging 29.9 knots. This US Government system is subject to monitoring.

On 29 April, BAINBRIDGE enjoyed her last cruise under her own power when she embarked her "dependents" for a dependents cruise in the VACAPES operation area.

During her transit to Norfolk, she became the first nuclear powered ship to visit Maracaibo, Venezuela.

On 19 March 1995, BAINBRIDGE began her trip to Norfolk, ending her last major deployment and arrived on 30 March 1995. Next she moved northward to Oslo, Norway and to Wilhelmshaven, Germany. In April 1970, BAINBRIDGE began her fourth West Pac deployment, and she won her fourth Battle "E" award. In August, BAINBRIDGE shifted homeport to Long Beach, California. In March 1977, CAPT T. A. Almstedt relieved CAPT Newell as Commanding Officer and in April she moved her homeport to San Diego in yet another homeport change, the fifth of her life. In 1988, during her next deployment to the Mediterranean, BAINBRIDGE participated in the COMSIXFLT Change of Command.

The third USS Bainbridge (DD-246) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She celebrated her sixth birthday conducting local operations.January 1969 began with BAINBRIDGE underway once again for a West Pac cruise. BAINBRIDGE was awarded her first Pacific Fleet Missile "E". Later that year, BAINBRIDGE entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard for an extended SRA. Rear Admiral Watkins delivered another Battle "E" Award while in the shipyard. Near the end of the deployment the ship was notified that her engineering plant would be shut down in April in preparation for deactivation in October.

March found the ship back in the Mediterranean in preparation for returning to Norfolk. Commanded by Captain Raymond E. Peet she departed for her first homeport, Charleston, South Carolina.

Also in April Rear Admiral J. Stark, COMSTANAVFORLANT, Commander, Standing Naval Forces, Atlantic, made BAINBRIDGE his flagship for Operation SHARP GUARD, which enforced United Nations sanctions against the former Republic of Yugoslavia.